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Make your apartment search easier with Padmapper
16 Nov 2011 by Kevin Ivanca
Finding an apartment on the internet is equivalent to hopping into a tractor tire and being rolled down a hill. You start at the top with high hopes: using the power of the internet for finding desirable rental properties and listings. From there, though, the process spirals downward. Apartment searching sites are hard to navigate, the contact information for the apartments isn’t always up t...
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Make Your Searches More Social With Wajam
17 Jun 2011 by Scott Nesbitt / 1 Comment
How do you find out about things? I’m talking about things like interesting places to visit while on vacation, a good place to eat, whether or not a particular bicycle seat is worth buying. Well, that and more. Chances are you take one of two routes. One, you turn to your favorite search engine. Or two, you ask a friend or someone in your social network a question or three. What if you were ...
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Greplin: Your Personal Search Engine
23 May 2011 by Scott Nesbitt / 2 Comments
If you use more than a couple of web applications, you know how difficult it can be to find things in those applications. Sure, services like Google Docs and Gmail have great built-in search, but services like Dropbox and Twitter … well, not so much. With Greplin, you can search a number of popular web applications not just for files, but also words and phrases. Let’s take a look at ho...
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Ask Techerator: How can I search by only File Name in Windows 7?
12 Nov 2010 by Bryant Sombke / 3 Comments
Techerator team: I’ve just switched from Windows XP/Office 2003 to Windows 7/Office 2010. Before, I could easily find files in Word & Excel by simply typing a word that I knew was in the filename…. Now with Windows7/Office 2010, by searching in the upper right corner search box, the directory instead lists all the files which have that word anywhere in the body or the title. I...
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Google Adds Instant Previews to Your Search Results
12 Nov 2010 by Evan Wondrasek
Hey Googlers, if Instant Search wasn’t enough for you, Google has been rolling out a new feature called Instant Previews. Instant Previews show you a visual preview of your search results, and let you quickly locate the information you wanted. Instant Previews isn’t turned on by default yet, but you can try it for yourself here. After clicking the blue Try It Now button, search for some...
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Two Great Alternatives to GOOG-411
11 Nov 2010 by Derek Johnson / 3 Comments
Did you know that Paranormal Activity 2 is Playing at AMC Kent Station in Kent, WA at 10:00pm and 12:15am tonight; it is currently clear and 46 degrees in Cando, ND; regular gasoline is $2.51 at the Sinclair station at 800 W Hampden Ave in Sheridan, CO; and today is a 9 out of 10 day for anyone whose astrological sign Cancer? Why do I know all of this? Is it because I have way too much time on my...
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3 Easy Ways to Improve Search in Windows 7
16 Sep 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 1 Comment
One of my favorite features of Windows 7 is the improved search. Windows Search is quickly available in the Start menu or in any open Explorer window. To improve search performance, Windows 7 uses a background indexing feature. Indexing pre-searches specified locations on your computer and compiles the results into the search index. When you search, you’re computer is not having to sea...
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Get Search Results From Google on the Go via Text Message
07 Jun 2010 by David Carman
Have you ever been somewhere with a question you need answered, but didn’t have access to a computer? No problem, just whip out your smart-phone and quickly Google it. Oh, you’re like me and don’t have a smart phone yet? Until recently I thought we were just out of luck, but not anymore because Google Mobile allows you to look up information via normal text messages! In tradit...
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Hide Your Google Searches from Prying Eyes with SSL Encrypted Search
26 May 2010 by Evan Wondrasek / 1 Comment
Web searches are usually pretty harmless, but I don’t like the idea that somebody could see the Google search I did for “Goose Juggling” earlier today. Until recently, though, anybody could see what you were searching for on Google because those search results were unencrypted. Last Friday, Google began rolling out encrypted web search using SSL, which means your searches are e...
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Google Tip: How to Search Within a Specific Website, Domain, or News Source
11 May 2010 by Evan Wondrasek / 5 Comments
I was recently asked if it was possible to do a search on Google but only look at results from a specific site. This is indeed possible, and is a great way to track down specific information when you know the general area it should be located. I frequently use this to search for information in the labyrinthine depths of my university’s website. To search a specific website or domain, simply...
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